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[Doktor Howl]

http://www.nbcnews.com/business/dow-slumps-over-2-percent-worst-trading-day-year-6C10390725

[Cain]

End of that delicious Fed gravy train.  Aint gonna get your free T-notes no more.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Charges-Half-naked-man-was-high-on-meth-while-driving-with-daughters-212364221.html?unu

SEATTLE -- The man who was caught allegedly speeding down I-5 crashing into cars with his two daughters in the backseat was not only high on methamphetamine and half-naked, he was wearing a womens blouse and prosthetic breasts, according to charges filed June 17.

[Junkenstein]

Did I miss the announcement that made the Anarchists Cookbook a criminal document?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22983354

An illegal document known as the Anarchist's Cookbook was also recovered from the computer, according to the prosecution.

I'm only slightly surprised given the state of the UK.

[Junkenstein]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/20/us-palestinians-resignation-idUSBRE95J0MI20130620

Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas just two weeks after taking office, an official in his press office told Reuters on Thursday.

It was not immediately clear whether Abbas would accept the resignation by Hamdallah, an academic and political independent whose cabinet convened for the first time last week.

The official told Reuters Hamdallah made the abrupt, unexpected move because of a "dispute over his powers".

A note on Hamdallah's Facebook page said his decision came after "outside interferences in his powers and duties".

Change you can believe in!

[P3nT4gR4m]

Did I miss the announcement that made the Anarchists Cookbook a criminal document?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22983354

An illegal document known as the Anarchist's Cookbook was also recovered from the computer, according to the prosecution.

I'm only slightly surprised given the state of the UK.

Back in the LSD Docs Disk's days, when I had it on 3.5 inch floppy it was considered highly illegal. Only reason I never scrubbed it tbh.

[Junkenstein]

I never knew this. I'll have to have a look at that.

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-06/20/x-ray-weapon-indictment

Two electrical engineers have been arrested and charged in upstate New York for building a portable X-ray gun that they wanted to use on people they saw as anti-Israel.

49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric Freight met each other at General Electric, where Crawford worked and Freight was employed as an outside contractor. According to the FBI, the two had approached Jewish organisations in April 2012 asking for funding for the weapon, with an investigation opened into them soon after.

Calling themselves "The Guild", the plan was to buy an industrial X-ray system and install it in a truck. The two men would then build a remote control and use it to fire dangerously high doses of radiation at targets they considered "opponents of Israel" -- including Muslims.

Controversially, by June, the FBI had an undercover source in place helping the pair draw up technical blueprints for the device, and helping them find components like vacuum tubes. The FBI also gave them $1,000 (£647) to build the control device, recording all conversations along the way.

A further bizarre detail involves Crawford apparently asking a high-ranking Ku Klux Klan member in North Carolina for money in October -- and the KKK member informing the FBI of the meeting.

Where to begin?

[Doktor Howl]

http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/20/19062348-some-disabled-workers-paid-just-pennies-an-hour-and-its-legal?lite

[Junkenstein]

Those guys who rent themselves out so privileged kids get round Disneyland faster are looking smarter every day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/20/french-woman-daughter-sit-exam-baccalaureat

With the Baccalauréat exam season under way in France amid endless media reports on stress, cheating and unbearable pressure, one mother who seemingly wanted to ensure the best result for her child has been questioned by police after disguising herself as her daughter in order to sit an English exam in her place.

The 52-year-old woman, reportedly dressed in Converse baseball boots, jeans and a lot of makeup, managed to be admitted to an exam hall in a lycée in Paris instead of her 19-year-old daughter.

An invigilator who wandered up the rows of desks glancing at the candidates' ID cards noticed the imposter straight away, having seen the daughter sitting a philosophy exam two days before. She notified the head of the exam centre but, not wishing to disturb the other students, did not evict the mother straight away.

Only after she had been writing her exam paper for two hours did plain-clothes police arrive and wait outside the exam hall.

An invigilator gently asked the woman to leave. "Thankfully, she left with no difficulties," a lycée representative told Le Parisien.

"The 20 or so other candidates present didn't notice anything."

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This article tells you everything you really need to know about human nature:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/20/193587906/a-surprising-barrier-to-clean-water-human-nature

Success, though, is a relative term. It turns out that if you test the water in people's homes in villages where the dispensers have been installed, only 40 percent test positive for chlorine.

Some people don't like the taste; some people don't believe in it, "Sometimes you're in a rush, or you're thinking about something else and you just don't do it."

This would be frustrating, says Green-Lowe, if it weren't so familiar.

"I've had malaria five times now, he says. "I have a bed net hanging above my bed, and I don't use it."

[Salty]

The FBI and the LAPD are only ever looking out for our best interests, that's, like, their job, right?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2345332/Paranoid-Michael-Hastings-told-WikiLeaks-lawyer-investigated-FBI-hours-deadly-car-crash.html

[Doktor Howl]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19063292-mixed-reactions-to-exodus-group-leaving-gay-therapy?lite

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

This article tells you everything you really need to know about human nature:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/06/20/193587906/a-surprising-barrier-to-clean-water-human-nature

Success, though, is a relative term. It turns out that if you test the water in people's homes in villages where the dispensers have been installed, only 40 percent test positive for chlorine.

Some people don't like the taste; some people don't believe in it, "Sometimes you're in a rush, or you're thinking about something else and you just don't do it."

This would be frustrating, says Green-Lowe, if it weren't so familiar.

"I've had malaria five times now, he says. "I have a bed net hanging above my bed, and I don't use it."

Is anyone here surprised? No? Didn't think so. It's like we WANT to be wiped out. :P

[Cardinal Pizza Deliverance.]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19063292-mixed-reactions-to-exodus-group-leaving-gay-therapy?lite

Those Exodus guys deserve to burn in their own Hell.

[Salty]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/21/19063292-mixed-reactions-to-exodus-group-leaving-gay-therapy?lite

Woah. I did not see that coming.

Somewhat related

http://m.usatoday.com/article/news/2437863

Looks like some folks can see which way the wind is blowing...finally.

Also, what CPD said.